Jasper Waugh-Quasebarth recalls precisely where he was during the 2017 solar eclipse:

Jasper Waugh-Quasebarth recalls precisely where he was during the 2017 solar eclipse: on a pontoon boat in the Tennessee River.

“At the moment of totality, there were several other pontoon boats nearby,” he went on to say. “We all individually turned on Bonnie Tyler’s ‘Total Eclipse of the Heart’ at the same time. That is a popular song, yet it becomes folklore since it was spontaneous.

We didn’t have CB radios to communicate among groups. Each group opted to accomplish this independently.”

According to Waugh-Quasebarth, a visiting professor in comparative studies and director and archivist for The Ohio State University’s Centre for Folklore Studies, folklore extends far beyond stories to include experiences such as those he had in Tennessee.